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Birth:           912 of Aachen, Rhineland
Death:          18 May  978 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Duke_of_Upper_Lorraine
Frederick I (c. 912 – 18 May 978) was the count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine. 
He was a son of Wigeric, count of Bidgau, also count palatine of Lorraine, and 
Cunigunda, and thus a sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne.

In 954, he married Beatrice, daughter of Hugh the Great, count of Paris, and Hedwige 
of Saxony. He received in dowry the revenues of the abbey of Saint-Denis in Lorraine. 
He constructed a fortress at Fains, on the frontier between France and Germany, and 
exchanged fiefs with the bishop of Toul. Thus, he created his own feudal domain, the 
county of Bar. So he became the founder of the House of Bar or the House of 
Ardennes-Bar, a cadet branch of the House of Ardennes.

The duchy of Lorraine was at that time governed by the archbishop of Cologne, Bruno, 
who was called the archduke on account of his dual title. In 959, he, in concert with 
his brother, the Emperor Otto I, divided the duchy, appointing as margraves (or vice-
dukes) one Godfrey in Lower Lorraine and Frederick in Upper Lorraine. After Bruno's 
death, in 977, Frederick and Godfrey were styling themselves dukes.

As duke, he favoured the reform of Saint-Dié and Moyenmoutier.

Family[edit]

His children were:
Henry (died between 972 and 978)
Adalbero II (958–1005), bishop of Verdun and Metz
Thierry I (965–1026), count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine
Ida (970-1026), married in 1010 Radbot, Count of Habsburg (970-1027), who built the 
castle of Habichtsburg and is thus an ancestor of the great Habsburg family which 
dominated Europe in the sixteenth century.

Parents
OF LOTHARINGIA Wigerich (ABT  886 - BEF  923)
____ Cunigunde (ABT  893 - AFT  923)

Siblings
OF TRIES Luitgard (ABT  908 - )
VON ARDENNES Gozelin (Gonzelo) (ABT  911 - ABT  943)
____ Frederick (Friedrich) I "Ferry" ( 912 - 18 May  978)
____ Siegfried (ABT  922 - 28 Oct  998)

Marriage To OF FRANCE Beatrice ( 939 - 23 Aug  987)
    m.  954 

Notes

Parents
OF NEUSTRIA Hugh Magnus "The Great" ( 898 - 16 Jun  956)
OF SAXONY Hedwig (ABT  915 - 14 Mar  965)

Children by OF FRANCE Beatrice  939 - 23 Aug  987
----- ----- (ABT  955 - )
OF LORRAINE Theodoric (Dietrich) I (ABT  965 - ABT 1026)

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